Helping Our Food Insecure Neighbors
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Carlos Rodriguez, chief policy and operations officer for City Harvest, talks about food insecurity in New York City, and why despite it being a year-round problem, it can be particularly stressful for families around major holidays; plus what policies City Harvest advocates for that they say would help.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNC. |
| 0:12.6 | Ahead of Thanksgiving, we want to take a look at the state of food insecurity in and around |
| 0:18.1 | New York City. Despite unemployment trending down, food pantries and soup kitchens are still experiencing great need and |
| 0:26.0 | great demand. |
| 0:27.0 | City Harvest, one of the leading local organizations dedicated to fighting food insecurity, |
| 0:31.7 | says it will deliver about 77 million pounds of revenue. fighting food |
| 0:33.1 | food in security says it will deliver about 77 million pounds of rescued food to food pantries soup kitchens and its own mobile markets this year |
| 0:39.8 | 77 million pounds we'll get into some of the work that the organization has undertaken with City Harvest's |
| 0:48.2 | Chief Policy and Operations Officer Carlos Rodriguez and look at the situation citywide and region wide. |
| 0:55.0 | He's the former president and CEO of Community Food Bank of New Jersey, |
| 0:59.0 | former executive director of the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, known as |
| 1:03.8 | Fulfill NJ, and former Vice President of Agency Relations and Benefit Access |
| 1:09.0 | at the Food Bank for New York City. Carlos, welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:14.0 | Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for coming on with us. |
| 1:16.0 | Happy Thanksgiving to you and thank you for having me. |
| 1:19.0 | You want to remind everybody briefly what City Harvest does and how it helps to fight hunger in New York? |
| 1:25.0 | Well, absolutely. City Harvest is the first and largest food rescue organization. |
| 1:29.5 | We collect fresh and nutritious food that could otherwise go to waste and we provided to the millions of New Yorkers who struggled to put to put meals on the tables. |
| 1:42.0 | And what is the state of hunger in New York City right now? How would you begin to |
| 1:46.6 | characterize it? Well hunger is unfortunately on the rise and we see it in by looking at the percentage of working-age |
| 1:55.7 | households that are struggling to make ends meet. Unfortunately that's up to |
| 1:59.7 | 50% of all working-age households in New York City are struggling. |
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